The Fifth Estate Trailer Released

Trailer for Julian Assange biopic released

An all-star cast come together for this autumn’s thriller, The Fifth Estate, based on the true story of WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange

The trailer for the highly anticipated film The Fifth Estate has been released. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as the infamous WikiLeaks Editor-In-Chief, Julian Assange, who leaked classified information about the United States military’s operations in Afghanistan and Iraq to newspapers including the New York Times and the Guardian.

Based partially on the Guardian writers David Leigh and Luke Harding’s book WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War On Secrecy, Assange has criticised the film, calling it “a massive propaganda attack on WikiLeaks and the character of my staff”, whilst addressing the Oxford Union at the university in January this year.